Mazke World blog

Fayemi A  DECEMBER12, 2018 report, published by Daily Trust, provided a glimpse into the erosion of governmental values in Ekiti State. Headlined: “Ikogosi Warm Spring Cries for Rehabilitation”, the report detailed how the famous resort and the state’s major tourist attraction, had gone from the luscious landscape it became between 2010 and 2014, the period covering the first term of Kayode Fayemi as governor, to a credible imitation of the ruins of a lost kingdom.  It was a high-velocity descent into decrepitude, one occasioned by its abandonment by the Ayo Fayose administration, which succeeded Fayemi’s in 2014. At the time, according to the report, more than half of the resort’s 110 rooms were uninhabitable, with the administrative building, bars, halls and playgrounds looking like barbarians had run through them. The resort’s major access, the Aramoko-Erijinyan-Ikogosi Road, became fit for just one purpose – extreme sports, with the travel time from Aramoko lengthenin...

Nigeria, and not the accused persons, is currently in the dock in the ongoing trials of Sunday Adeyemo (Igboho) and Nnamdi Kanu in Cotonou, Republic of Benin and Abuja, Nigeria respectively. The 54-year-old Nnamdi Kanu and 49-year-old Igboho, who were little known, have suddenly become heroes of their people and of the free world, wearing garlands the Buhari administration has tactlessly adorned them with. Not the lacklustre performance of his administration, but the way Buhari has handled the fundamental issue of the security of life and property of Nigerians, which gave birth to Kanu and Igboho, will be the dominant yardstick with which this era will receive the cruel judgement of history. The legislature, the Presidency, and even the judiciary are in the eyes of the world. In these their two exceptional sons, Buhari has put both the Yoruba and Igbo nations in detention, manacled for trial for the expression of their conscience that even if the Buhari government lacks the capacity to...